... but am sharing anyway. Partly so I can clear out my bookmarks, and partly because a quick skim makes me reasonably confident that there's something to worth reading in all of these.
- Jo Walton on "reading protocols." An older piece that Josh Christie turned up a couple weeks ago. Thought-provoking, but I still haven't formed an articulate response to it.
- "When Jill Abramson Was the Only Grownup..." This one I have read. And now I want to be a reporter again.
- Andrew Karre on the end goal of contemporary YA romance. Much more interesting than my description makes it sound. Go read it.
- Post-Artifact Books and Publishing. Haven't read this one, but Craig Mod's previous stuff has been worth it.
- A look at changes in book publishing over the last couple decades. See above, then substitute Peter Osnos for Craig Mod.
- Junot Díaz on disasters. Because it's Junot Díaz.
- Some day I plan to blog about the sheer awesomeness of Annette Gordon-Reed. For now, this.
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I don't know how to feel about the Jo Walton piece. I talked it through with Jeff, the science fiction reader in the house, and I think she may be on to something but it made me sort of generally and irrationally angry and I can't quite say why.
The most articulate reaction I've come up with (partly based on a Twitter discussion with Josh Christie) is that there's far too much sense of "should" in it -- i.e. SF requires a certain skill set/reading paradigm, and if you haven't acquired it, you should, otherwise you're doing it wrong.
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